UCCELLIERA ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2023 Italy with vines up to 100

with vines up to 100 years old

creamy palate of roasted almond

and savory olive tapenade flavors framed by muscular but fine-grained tannins

before triple filtration and bottling at 82 proof

runs wide-necked stills that produce an unpeated

UCCELLIERA ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2023 Italy with vines up to 100In 1986, Andrea Cortonesi bought the Uccelliera estate from Ciacci Piccolomini and built one of Montalcino's most respected small producers from the ground up. His vineyards in Castelnuovo dell'Abate, Montalcino's southeast corner, sit at 150350 meters on clay, sand, and iron rich soils under practicing organic farming. Fruit comes exclusively from Brunello designated plots, cold macerated and fermented with native yeasts over 2530 days before oak